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It is undisputed that the most exciting day in professional football is the day when teams play semi-final games (conference championships) to make it to the Super Bowl. (Just as the most exciting day in my favorite spectator sport, women’s tennis, is the day when semi-final matches in the majors are played.) Likewise, the most… Read more.
They were fighting two wars: One was in Europe, and the other took place in the hearts and minds of our citizens. The Tuskegee Airmen helped win a war, and you helped change our nation for the better….And the medal that we confer today means that we’re doing a small part to ensure that your… Read more.
Over the past two years I have written a series of articles (the most recent appended below) proselytizing scientific studies which have found that circumcision (a ritual dating back over 15,000 years) is the cheapest and most effective way to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. After the publication of each of them, however, I have… Read more.
From the middle ages, the art of war in the Middle East has been governed by Lex talionis – the law of retaliation (or the categorical imperative) which calls for “an eye for an eye…a life for a life”. Therefore, the capture of 15 British Marines by the Iranians last week was sanctioned retaliation –… Read more.
All the world’s a stage, and a small-town medical examiner will be strutting his hour upon it today to announce his autopsy report on Anna Nicole Smith…and then will be heard from no more. But am I the only one who thinks the Florida officials dealing with the death of Anna Nicole must be drinking… Read more.
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The political firestorm that broke out a few weeks ago over the controversial firing of eight U.S. attorneys has now engulfed the storied career of America’s first Latino Attorney General, Alberto R. Gonzales. And, as it is with all Washington scandals, it’s not the alleged crime – of firing them because they were deemed “unloyal… Read more.
Even though I have “strayed” far from the religious dogma that governed my upbringing as the son of a preacher man, I still find it tremendously entertaining to listen to charismatic preachers sermonize under the anointing of the Holy Ghost. And even though preachers like T.D Jakes and Jimmy Swaggart may be more popular, I… Read more.
Over the past 24 hours, I have been contacted by many people expressing insidiously-vicarious frustration about reports that Howard K. Stern has filed (or given notice of his intent to file) an appeal of Justice Stephen Isaacs’ “order” to make Dannielynn available for samples of her DNA to be taken. And this reported appeal, notwithstanding… Read more.
President George W. Bush may not have learned anything from the egregious mistakes his Administration made in planning and executing its war against Iraq. But he appears to have been sufficiently chastened by them to heed his Daddy’s advice to build an unassailable coalition and secure unambiguous UN authorization before attacking his next axis-of-evil target:… Read more.
